Yup, it's a feature, not a bug. I do see what you mean RamVA, in my previous cars I would also tap the clutch as a way to cancel cruise so it took some getting used to.
Titan7 made a small batch of wheels with +53 offset at the request of some civicxi.com members. Can be found here:
https://osgikenusa.com/collections/special-parts/products/titan-7-t-p10-18x9-5-53-5x120-64-1-machine-black
Interesting that they went for +45 offset wheels rather than +60, apparently they don’t think it’s all that important to retain the 0 scrub radius achieved with the dual-axis suspension.
BTW this is not a new wheel design, these are Titan7 T-S5. The TCX car used a 18” version.
My own camera has shifted, now I see part of my license plate along the bottom of the screen. I think it occurred while driving on a washboard gravel road.
FYI, the Infinity Design intake can't be ordered on their main website (https://www.infinityautodesign.com/honda-civic-type-r-fl5) but I just saw that they now have a different website for the USA distributor where it sells for $1510...
Yeah, I should've mentioned that I had my car aligned at an Acura dealership and the specs they used for the ITS were the same as those shown in the pdf for the CTR. In case anyone is wondering if they might be different.
Right? "Reviewers shat on it top to bottom" meanwhile Car and Driver gave it a 9.5/10, and MotorTrend had it as a finalist for their Performance Car of the Year award.
Good overview of the MK8 situation otherwise. I strongly considered it but anyway I couldn't get one immediately without...
Practically all new cars are at 70-80% VLT stock. Tint shops may or may not bother mentioning that.
I live in a province where the legal minimum is 70% front, the shop recommended 50% front / 20% rear as a typical option that is widely tolerated. I went with 50% front and rear and I'm happy...
For a closer look at the charts, check out the blog post version: https://www.tegiwaimports.com/blog/?p=7444
Looking at the P-norm curves, here's my rough attempt at comparing the powerbands
rpm
Stock intake
PRL
Eventuri
GruppeM
(day 1)
GruppeM
(day 2)
Infinity Design
(day 2)
3000
178
185...
No doubt! I'm in a condo building, so if I wasn't using the garage I'd have to deal with street parking.
Upside is that I never have to scrape off snow/ice for a quick run to the grocery store.
I got the car in mid November so I only put around 1000 km on it before we started getting snow, everything looked brand new at that point. Then 5000 km during the winter.
Haha, Fluid Film is exactly what I ordered yesterday!
Yeah, it would take many more years before any of this is a...
Front rotors had some dark circles on them that weren't going away. Decided to pull the pads out to sand them, took quite a bit of sanding to make them look uniform. The dark circles on the rotors are now fading away.
I put the summer wheels back on a couple weeks ago, and I was curious to see how the most exposed components fared after 5000 km of snow, salt and sand.
My car is parked in a room-temperature garage with very high humidity.
Oil-based rustproofing had been applied by a shop before the winter...
Here's how the Vikingcontacts look after 1500 km, mostly on dry pavement. Top is a rear tire and bottom is a front tire. I probably should drive more gently with these, also I'm still getting used to the way traction control behaves in this car. With these tires it is easy to break traction when...